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The 2,550 square-kilometre (985 square-mile) block broke off on February 12 or 13 from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, a 160-kilometer spit of floating ice protruding into the Southern Ocean from East Antarctica due south of Melbourne, researchers said.

Some 400 metres (1,300 feet) thick, the iceberg could fill Sydney Harbour more than 100 times over.

The 2,550 square-kilometre (985 square-mile) block broke off on February 12 or 13 from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, a 160-kilometer spit of floating ice protruding into the Southern Ocean from East Antarctica due south of Melbourne, researchers said.

Some 400 metres (1,300 feet) thick, the iceberg could fill Sydney Harbour more than 100 times over.

Icebergs have been forming and/or breaking off for about tens of millions of years now. I think it is hilarious how people like you believe these things never happened until about 20 years ago :rofl: :rofl:

Icebergs have been forming and/or breaking off for about tens of millions of years now. I think it is hilarious how people like you believe these things never happened until about 20 years ago :rofl: :rofl:

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where in my post does it state that I believe icebergs have been falling off for about 20 years?

Did you read the article?

Did you read what a scientist who has been studying this says about the global heavy water cycle and its relation to planetary weather?

Nahhhhhh...just make up things that I never said and beat your chest...that sounds better!

Icebergs / glaciers already resting in water are not a problem ... the ocean already reflects their mass. It's the ice that is not in the ocean that when melting causes the water to rise. This one sounds like it's already part of the ocean.

Icebergs / glaciers already resting in water are not a problem ... the ocean already reflects their mass. It's the ice that is not in the ocean that when melting causes the water to rise. This one sounds like it's already part of the ocean.

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Its like the Mr. Wizard experiment with the glass of water and Ice overflowing over the top....

The planet has warmed and cooled throughout its 4 billion or so years of existence. This isn't the first iceberg to break off, and it won't be the last.

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That is a lie and you know it. Scientists have studied tree rings to prove that the temperature of the planet Earth was the exact same, year in and year out, for 4 billion years until Ronald Reagan took office.

"There may be regions of the world's oceans that lose oxygen, and then of course most of the life there will die," Mario Hoppema, chemical oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, told the Associated Press.

However, on the bright side, Michael Meredith of the British Antarctic Survey told the BBC that the new iceberg probably isn't large enough to effect global climate patterns.

Instead, Meredith noted that the reconfiguration of Antarctic geography created a virtual laboratory where scientists can monitor how iceberg separation affects ocean ecosystems.

What caused the Iceberg that sunk Titanic to 'break off' we didn't have any SUV's then, Icebergs have been floating around in the Atlantic for as long as man has been sailing those waters, why did they break off?